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Heading into the holidays
You know, I am NOT a holiday person. I do celebrate Buy Nothing Day and Festivus. This year will be the first year in many that I have not spent at least part of the long Thanksgiving weekend at my...
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Sunday morning coffee pot post
I’m getting started a little later than usual because the evil kittehs woke me up by scampering across my face late last night, and even though that got them evicted from the bedroom, it was a long...
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Merry Christmas!
I’m just going to ramble on for a little while here. I will finish weaving “Migraine Day” today, but I’ve decided to experiment with this piece and make it part of a bigger piece about perception with...
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Back at it
I’m very happy to report that after months of simply not being able to make myself weave “Cathedral” I am in the studio enjoying it very much. However, my laptop is pretty much kaput. I’m blogging on...
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Roller Coaster Week
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin This past week was some wild ride. After a weekend of pleasant social occasions, including some of the best roasted oysters ever,...
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Seven days later…
We have a delayed opening at work until noon because of the winter storm we had over the weekend, and since the cats would not let me sleep late, and Sandy has gone to work and there is a working...
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Denim blanket progress
I started saving old jeans and other denim several years ago because I wanted to make a rugged blanket that I could put down on the ground and play on outside. Then I discovered Jude Hill’s wonderful...
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I’ve been pretty bummed out about Fred and jealous of my friend Susanne, who spent her spring break marbling paper at my house while I dealt with April craziness at work last week. When the weekend got...
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Tapestry Weavers South Show, plus a general update
It’s been a busy time, but after this week I should have more time to devote to this blog as well as my artistic pursuits. I work at a university and graduation is tomorrow. Since I last wrote, I made...
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“Save Our State”
A postcard tapestry for the unjuried exhibition Travelling Tapestry: Textile Mail Art, a collaboration of The Museo Textil de Oaxaca, the Museo de la Filatelia de Oaxaca, and the American Tapestry...
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Weekend update
Sandy and I can be incredibly lazy most of the time, but this past weekend we both got a lot done. A lot of grocery shopping and house cleaning. I spent most of Sunday in the studio at the Church of...
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Pacific Beach Weaving
I finished the painted weft weaving today. Part of the charm was not knowing exactly how it would turn out. I find that the strong horizontal line in the almost exact center bothers me. I think that...
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Sunday morning coffee pot post
This time, from the studio that I rent at a nearby church! I have this floor to myself these days, at least on the weekends and evenings when I can get here. I guess it is just too hot for most...
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Weekend report
The studio window at 10 a.m. – a valiant effort to keep the heat out. Well, it is hot as Hades here, just like you would expect, except hotter. The church is concerned about me leaving the air...
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More cloth weaving
The next (final?) denim panel woven in a log cabin “color and weave” pattern, and a portable cloth weaving project with Sandy’s old shirts to be sewn into a lightweight blanket later. I was not able to...
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Mending
Mood swings. High highs, low lows, and blah in between. Not much liking my brain activity these days except when I’m in the studio. August is historically difficult for me. I’ll get through it. It’s...
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Laying low
Can’t type too much – I’m gonna have to lay low on the blogging for a while. Here are some photos from the past week: ^more pieces for the shirt coverlet ^cut the denim blanket in half, much easier to...
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A Trip to See the American Tapestry Biennial 11 in South Bend, Indiana
Dorota Wronska, “Dance”; Laurie O’Neill, “98% Water”; Sharon Crary, “It Seems to Be” As many of you know, my tapestry “98% Water” was accepted into the American Tapestry Biennial 11 and the exhibition...
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Happy Kwanzaa and Boxing Day!
Well, I’m about holidayed out and I haven’t even celebrated much of anything! That’s typical for me, though. I started losing my holiday spirit when I worked in retail and then the many years of...
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Sewing in the new studio
As you know, I’m enjoying my new studio. I spent a good part of every day of my Christmas break from work there. It was hard to let go of that routine. From now on it will have to be on weeknights and...
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